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豊玉毘売命
The name in its original Japanese form. Toyotama (豊玉毘売命) is attested in the source tradition — “Abundant jewel”. Its original diacritics and script distinctions carry the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
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The plain toyotama form is identical to the Unicode restoration. Because this name is already written in Latin letters, no diacritics, stress, or script information were lost — only capitalization differs.
Toyotama
The Unicode restoration does not need to recover lost marks for Toyotama. Its value is canonical spelling and consistent cataloguing, not the reconstruction of erased orthography. The domain is readable as-is to both DNS and humanity.
Toyotama.com → toyotama.com
The non-ASCII characters in Toyotama are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Toyotama.
How Toyotama is preserved in writing
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Toyotama
Restores 豊玉毘売命. The full Unicode restoration. toyotama.com is not in the PuniCodex collection — it is watched for release; if it drops, this temple upgrades to an owned flagship.
How Toyotama was spoken
Sea, Transformation, and the Mother of Emperors
Toyotama is the daughter of the sea god Ryūjin and the wife of Hoori. Her name, 'Abundant Jewel,' evokes the treasures of the undersea palace. She is the mother of Ugayafukiaezu, making her an ancestor of Emperor Jimmu and a bridge between the ocean depths and the imperial line.
Daughter of Ryūjin and inhabitant of the undersea palace.
She married the descendant of Ninigi and bore his son.
Her son continued the line to Emperor Jimmu.
She could transform between human and sea-dragon form.
Stories of Toyotama
Toyotama's mythology is the story of a sea princess who joins the terrestrial line but cannot stay.
When Hoori descended to the undersea palace seeking the lost fishhook, Ryūjin welcomed him and gave him Toyotama in marriage. For three years they lived in the palace, and Toyotama became pregnant. Hoori longed for the land, and she agreed to accompany him.
Toyotama asked Hoori not to watch her give birth. She entered a sealed hut, but curiosity overcame him. He peeked inside and saw her in her true form — a sea dragon or crocodile — giving birth. Ashamed, she returned to the sea, leaving their son Ugayafukiaezu on land. She sent her sister Tamayori to nurse him.
Ugayafukiaezu grew up and married his aunt Tamayori. Their son was Kamuyamato-Iwarebiko, later Emperor Jimmu. Thus the sea princess Toyotama became the mother of the imperial line's immediate ancestor.
Toyotama is the bride who must be trusted unseen. Her return to the sea teaches that love across boundaries requires restraint. The imperial line is born from a broken promise — a reminder that even sacred genealogies carry loss.
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